I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.